Each day read the Gospel passage
for the day and the Psalm passage for the day (you can read them all at once or
do one reading in the morning and one in the evening) and use the reflection
questions to help process the passage.
The 26th day of Lent
Thursday March 10th,
2016
Now that we have finished one biography of Jesus, the Book of Luke, we
will turn to a second account – the book of Mark. Mark was written by a disciple named Mark who
was a close associate of Peter, one of the closest 12 followers of Jesus. Marks “Gospel” is full of the stories that
Peter told Mark. We will finish Mark on
Easter Sunday.
Gospel Reading : Mark 2
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
2 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum , the people heard that he had come
home. 2They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room
left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3Some
men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4Since
they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in
the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was
lying on. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,
“Son, your sins are forgiven.”
6Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, 7“Why
does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God
alone?”
8Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking
in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you
thinking these things? 9Which is
easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get
up, take your mat and walk’? 10But I
want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”
So he said to the man, 11“I tell you, get
up, take your mat and go home.” 12He got up, took his mat and
walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God,
saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
13Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and
he began to teach them. 14As he walked along, he saw Levi son of
Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow
me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
15While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and
sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who
followed him. 16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw
him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why
does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the
healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
18Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and
asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the
Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
19Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the
bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him
with them. 20But the time will come
when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
21“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment.
If they do, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22And
people do not pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the wine will burst
the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour
new wine into new wineskins.”
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples
walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The
Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the
Sabbath?”
25He answered, “Have you never read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house
of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat.
And he also gave some to his companions.”
27Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for
people, not people for the Sabbath. 28So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
The Holy Bible : Today's New International Version.
2005. Grand Rapids , MI : Zondervan.
Psalm Reading :
Psalm 92
A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.
1It is good to praise the Lord
and make music to your name, O Most High,
2proclaiming your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,
3to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp.
4For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;
I sing for joy at what your hands have
done.
5How great are your works, Lord,
how profound your thoughts!
6Senseless people do not know,
fools do not understand,
7that though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.
8But you, Lord,
are forever exalted.
9For surely your enemies, Lord,
surely your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
10You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
fine oils have been poured on me.
11My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my ears have heard the rout of my wicked
foes.
12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13planted in the house of the Lord,
they will flourish in the courts of our
God.
14They will still bear fruit in old age,
they will stay fresh and green,
15proclaiming, “The Lord
is upright;
he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness
in him.”
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